"Huh?" Ma Chongming didn't react for a while, thinking that Wang Huan didn't understand his words, and repeated: "The rattan armor is afraid of fire, and it will ...... at one point."

"You've said that." Wang Huan interrupted him and said, "I'm asking you, is there still this kind of rattan armor stored in your family's warehouse?" ”

"Yes, yes, but not much." Ma Chongming ate and said: "And I don't know how many years I have been letting it go, and no one has taken care of it, I don't know what it has become." ”

"It doesn't matter, the rattan nail is soaked in tung oil, and the longer it is placed, the stronger it becomes." Wang Huan's expression became excited, his eyes were shining, and he asked, "How many?" ”

"This, I'm going to check it out." Ma Chongming was a little reluctant, and reminded again: "The rattan armor can't be sold." ”

Wang Huan didn't pay attention to what he said, pulled him all the way to gallop, jumped on the horse, these ten days, he practiced riding horses every day, just to stop riding with Ma Wannian as soon as possible, Ma Wannian is strong, he always feels embarrassed like a koala when he sticks to the back. For this reason, I don't know how many heels I fell, but fortunately, the Sichuan horse is not tall, long in endurance, and I was not injured when I fell to the ground, and I was finally able to ride reluctantly.

The two of them, with some guards, galloped to the cottage of Ma Chongming, the earthen fort, whose storehouse, just behind the huge mansion, was a sturdy warehouse made of stone, covered with thick thatch, and a double-opening wooden door eight feet wide that was firmly locked.

Ma Chongming called the doorman, opened the door, and as soon as a few people stepped in, they smelled an unpleasant musty smell coming to their faces, almost smoking Wang Huan's head.

Ma Chongming said with a smile: "The warehouse has not been cleaned for a long time, and the smell is unpleasant, so it will be fine." ”

He led Wang Huan around the piles of debris in the warehouse, until he reached the deepest part of the warehouse, and then pointed to a pile of black things and said, "That's it." ”

Wang Huan stepped forward, took a closer look, and found that it was a piece of large and small rattan armor stacked layer by layer, from the ground to the bottom of the beam, a heavy smell of tung oil rushed straight to the nasal cavity, so that the musty smell in the warehouse was a lot lighter, Wang Huan took out a piece casually, put it on his hand and looked at it carefully.

This is a piece of rattan armor one foot long and half a foot wide, the shiny rattan surface has no traces of depreciation caused by time, as if it has just been dried in black and cyan, depending on the size, it should be a shoulder armor. The rattan armor was strong, Wang Huan wrenched it with his hand, as if he was wrenching an iron plate, and the fine rattan was woven very densely one by one.

Behind the armor, there is a soft rattan for binding, which is directly tied to the shoulder when used, which is a bit similar to the plate armor of the West, and Wang Huan pulled out a larger piece of armor, which is also shiny, and this piece is another breastplate.

"A set of rattan armor, composed of breastplate, back armor, left and right shoulder armor, skirt armor and guard, divided into six pieces, can be tied to the body with soft rattan when used, the operation is simple, one person can put on the armor by himself." Ma Chongming covered his nose and explained that he couldn't get used to smelling the musty smell in the warehouse, and he rarely came to this warehouse a few times a year, if it wasn't for Wang Huan to come in, he wouldn't have come.

Wang Huan looked at the pile of rattan armor that reached the beam of the house with great interest, and estimated: "Looking at the posture, I'm afraid there are thousands of sets here, right?" ”

He turned to Ma Chongming: "I want it!" Will the horse-headed man sell it to me? ”

Ma Chongming was a little surprised, and even put down the hand covering his nose, and said in surprise: "Lord Wang wants these rags?" Then how can you ask for money, just send it to you. However, if an adult is going to sell to someone else, I will take 50% of the profit. ”

The latter sentence exposed his profiteer quality, Wang Huan smiled faintly and said: "No, how can such a treasure be sold to others?" ”

As he spoke, he walked along the pile of rattan armor, and when he came to the end, he saw a pile of wooden boxes in front of him, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is this?" ”

Ma Chongming was a little disappointed when he heard that he was not going to do business, covered his nose again, glanced at the urn angrily and replied: "This is also a worthless thing, I'll show it to you." ”

He opened the copper buckle on a wooden box, opened the lid of the box, and suddenly a puff of dust rose up, straight to the noses of the two people standing nearby, even Wang Huan couldn't help covering his mouth and nose, and when the dust settled, Ma Chongming took out a crossbow as long as an adult's arm from it, pinched his nose and said: "This is a mountain-destroying crossbow, according to legend, it is improved to Zhuge Wuhou's crossbow, one shot ten arrows, but the range is not far, the power is not great, the waste of bows and arrows, compared to the corner bow, no one wants." ”

Wang Huan's eyes suddenly narrowed into a slit, radiating an indescribable light like seeing a stunning girl.

At noon, Wang Huan and Ma Chongming came out of the warehouse with a disgraced face, and the dust in the warehouse almost dyed the two people who turned the boxes and cabinets into terracotta warriors, but Wang Huan was so excited and happy that he even jumped and jumped when he walked, and he almost cheered. Ma Chongming, who was following behind, looked inexplicable, all morning, the God of Wealth King was spent in the barn full of tatters, he didn't even drink a sip of water, he counted all the rattan armor and the mountain-destroying crossbow in one go, made a book by himself, and strictly ordered himself to keep it properly, and he would send someone to pull it all away tomorrow. It makes Ma Chongming very strange, no one wants the rattan armor for a long time, the mountain-destroying crossbow is imitated from the Zhuge crossbow, and it is very famous, but it was the high-tech of the Three Kingdoms era hundreds of years ago, and now, the three-eyed system, bird system, swarm bee and other firearms in the Ming Dynasty army can kill it at any time, no one will buy it, what is the use of taking it? These things in my warehouse have not been touched for ten years, so I put them in the warehouse as rags. He thought and thought, and was puzzled.

Forget it, I'm too lazy to think about it, just take it as a favor and give it to Wang Huan.

He didn't know that Wang Huan was also helpless, if there were ironclad firearms, Wang Huan would not use these cold weapons, the question was where to find ironclad firearms? Shizhu does not produce iron, go to other places to buy, the people sent out are empty-handed, everywhere wolf smoke, large and small warlords are desperate to expand the army, even kitchen knives are not easy to buy, where to buy ordnance? In Qin Liangyu's warehouse, there are only 100 pairs of iron armor, and there are two or three thousand sets of leather armor, but she is also training, and it is not enough for her own use, where can she support Wang Huan.

Therefore, these thousands of sets of rattan armor and hundreds of Zhuge crossbows, but in response to Wang Huan's urgency, the white pole soldiers are unparalleled in the spear formation, but they are ultimately foot soldiers, poor mobility, the length of the spear is the farthest distance to resist the enemy, and when it encounters the cavalry cavalry or the army with long-range means of transportation, it can only be beaten in formation, so the rattan armor self-defense, and the output of the crossbow can barely be regarded as a modern army with far and near.

"The first simple solution has been found, and before you have iron armor and firearms, rely on them to save the day." Wang Huan secretly muttered to himself, the helplessness in his heart was only clear to himself.

The next day, Wang Huan sent Xu Goudan to lead a group of homeless people, driving from Wanshou Valley to Ma Chongming's village, pushing a wheelbarrow and ants to move like an ant, he urgently built an armory in Wanshou City, and began to arm his soldiers and horses after they became an army.

The days passed day by day, Ma Chongming was sent out by Wang Huan to buy grain, the fields in the valley have not yet been built, sowing and harvesting will have to wait for the next year, this year's rations for more than 20,000 people have to rely on external purchases, anyway, the silver is not bad, just buy it.

It's just that Ma Chongming obviously has a pain in his flesh, watching the homeless people eating rice and steamed buns in large gulps, receiving wages and salaries, he looks uncomfortable, as if he is as gloomy as his dead father, fortunately, he didn't stay long before Wang Huan was driven out to buy food, and without his nagging, Wang Huan's ears were a lot cleaner.

On the morning of the ninth day of the seventh month, the wind was light and the sun was clear, and Wang Huan was carrying a stone on the slightly formed city wall of Wanshou City in the valley, when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside the wall: "Lord Wang, Lord Wang, there is a messenger from Chongqing outside the valley!" ”